4 and 6, John Adam Street
4 AND 6, JOHN ADAM STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216786
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 6, John Adam Street
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 6, JOHN ADAM STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216786
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 6, John Adam Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 6, JOHN ADAM STREET WC2
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 6, JOHN ADAM STREET WC2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30384 80620
Details
TQ 3080 NW
72/133
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
JOHN ADAM STREET, WC2 (north side)
Nos. 4 and 6
24.2.58
GV
II*
Pair of terraced town houses. c.1772-74 by Robert Adam. Brown brick with stucco dressings, slate roof. Three storeys, attic storey and basement. Each three windows wide. Doorways to right. Elongated console brackets supporting dentil cornices, panelled doors and patterned fanlights. Recessed sashes under gauged flat arches. First floor plat band; main cornice over second floor, parapeted attic. Cast iron balconettes to first and second floor windows on No.6 and to second floor only on No. 4.
Cast iron area railings with urn finials.
No.4 retains a number of good interior features with geometrical staircase with wrought iron balustrade, friezes, cornices, chimneypieces etc.
Part of the Adam Brothers' Adelphi development.
Listing NGR: TQ3038280625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411454
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Strand The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 2: Volume 18 , Vol. 18, (1937)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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